On Tuesday the 11th and Wednesday the 12th of September – the feast of the Translation of the Relics of the Holy Right-Believing Great Prince Alexander Nevsky – Metropolitan Hilarion of Eastern America & New York led the All-Night Vigil and celebrated Divine Liturgy in St. Alexander Nevsky Diocesan Cathedral in Howell, NJ

On Saturday, September 15, Metropolitan Hilarion of Eastern America & New York led the consecration of the cornerstone of the future church building of St. Michael the Archangel Church in Wayne, NJ.

On Monday, September 10, the Media Office of the Eastern American Diocese released a film, entitled "Our Heavenly Mother has Returned," detailing the pilgrimage of the Protectress of the Russian Diaspora, the Kursk Root Icon of the Mother of God, to the Diocese of Kursk in September 2017.

Standing before God in prayerful solidarity with our long-suffering brethren of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, headed by His Beatitude Onufry, Metropolitan of Kiev & All Ukraine who, being revered and respected throughout the whole of the Orthodox world...

On Sunday, September 2, the feast of the Holy Prophet Samuel and the Synaxis of the Saints of Moscow, Eastern American Diocesan vicar Bishop Nicholas of Manhattan celebrated Divine Liturgy in the Synodal Cathedral of the Sign in New York City.

On Saturday, September 1, the annual Labor Day Pilgrimage at Holy Trinity Monastery in Jordanville, NY, began in the usual way: with a procession of the wonderworking Pochaev Icon of the Mother of God from Holy Dormition Cemetery Church to the monastery’s main Holy Trinity Cathedral.

This past July, with the blessing of the Synod of Bishops of the Russian Church Abroad, Bishop Nicholas of Manhattan, vicar of the Eastern American Diocese, visited the Holy City of Jerusalem in order to observe and lead the anniversary commemorations in honor of the Centenary of the martyric deaths of New Martyrs Grand Duchess Elizabeth and Nun Barbara

During the spring, a great relic was brought from the Synodal Cathedral of the Sign in New York City to St. Elizabeth Convent in Minsk, Belarus: a reliquary with the right arm of the Holy Nun-Martyr Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna, and a piece of the relics of Nun-Martyr Barbara.

On Monday, January 8, as part of his broader ROCOR Studies project, Deacon Andrei Psarev (assistant professor of Russian Church History and Canon Law at Holy Trinity Seminary in Jordanville, NY) visited St. John the Baptist Cathedral in Washington, DC, where he conducted an interview with its rector, Archpriest Victor Potapov.

The Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church, during its extraordinary meeting on September 14 in the Patriarchal and Synodal Residence at St. Daniel’s Monastery in Moscow, adopted a resolution (Journal №70) accepting new petitions for the preservation of Orthodox unity, to be offered at every Divine Liturgy at the Augmented Litany. 

With the blessing of His Eminence, Metropolitan Hilarion, the myrrh-streaming Hawaiian-Iveron Icon of the Mother of God is currently traveling to the churches and monasteries of the Eastern American Diocese.

The third issue of Holy Trinity Monastery’s Russian-language journal Pravoslavnaia Rus’ for 2018 may be downloaded as a PDF directly from the publisher’s website.

Online registration for the 2018 General Assembly of the Eastern American Diocese has opened on the diocesan website. With the blessing of His Eminence, Metropolitan Hilarion, the assembly will be held at the Diocesan Center at St. Alexander Nevsky Cathedral in Howell, NJ this October 22-24.

From October 3-7, Albany, NY will host the 27th Annual Russian Orthodox Church Musicians’ Conference, with the theme "Strengthening the Foundation in Orthodox Church Singing Today: the Obikhod...